Picture-support.



PATENTED FEB. 24, 1903 v G. G. LORE & A. J. BARR.

PICTURESUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1. 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. LORE AND ANDREW J. BARBQOFMANSFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO CLARENCE L. WILLIAMS, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

PICTURE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,579, dated February 24, 1903.

7 Application filed July 1,1902. Serial No. 113,916. (No model.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE C. LORE and ANDREW J BARR, citizens of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture- Supports; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in picture-supports for show-cases used in photograph-galleries; and the objects of cur invention are, first, to provide a device for holding photographs to exhibit the same in showcases second, to so construct the'device that it will retain the pictures in position vertical or any angle required without mutilating the pictures and obviate the necessity of tacking the pictures to the back of the case; third, to make a cheap, durable, and efficient means for the purpose stated. These objects we accomplish by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of one of our picture-supports, showing a portion of a picture placed within the support. Fig. 2 is an end view of same to show the form in which the support is bent. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the supports to show full-y its construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate the several parts throughout the views.

In the accompanying drawings, A indicates our picture-support,which is composed'of one piece of wire bent-upon itself to form the horiz'ontal bar B. 7 Each end is formed into a double U-shaped loop 0 O and formed parallel with each other, forming two parallel vertical bars D D. The lower ends are reduced to a pin-point E E. The front loops F are for the purpose of holding the picture, the bar B clamping the same against the inner wall of the loop. The operator then forces the pins D D through the cloth or any other covering provided for theback of the show-case.

It will be readily seen by those skilled in.

the art that when pictures are placed within the clamps they can be arranged in any form required within the. show-case.

Having fully illustrated and described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-A picture-support, composed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form two parallel vertical pins, the upper ends of said pins bent downward thence upward forming two U shaped loops, said loops connected bCgeiJLiQf by a horizontal bar, the front U-shap'ed loops adapted to hold the edge of the picture, the pins adapted to attach the picture'to the back of the show-case, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our sigma-1 tures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE O. LORE. ANDREW J. BARR. Witnesses:

CHARLES PAGE, MAUD B. ACKERMAN. 

